And it is a true "reader's novel", in the sense that its narrative reinforces the very value of reading and study.
The decision by Ethel S. Julien, a civil District Court judge, backed by 45 pages of reasoning and historical narrative, reinforced a long-held counternarrative of the beginnings of that movement.
It is one of many stories that have been bypassed in favour of the shopworn narrative – reinforced in literature and a century of American cinema – of Native Americans as backward and primitive.
A myth imposed upon us as a predominant narrative reinforced in policy, ethics, and morals, constantly reinforcing the notion that we are all on our own.
According to Călinescu, the mission bases itself on travels undertaken by young men in Creangă's native region, while the subsequent episodes in the narrative reinforce the impression of familiarity, from the "peasant speech" adopted by the villain known as the Bald Man, to the "crass vulgarity" evidenced by the antagonist Red Emperor.
But rather than explore issues around the construction of gender roles and expectations, and the negative effects which these might be having on all of us, we fall back time and time again onto old and familiar narratives, reinforcing them as we do so.
Political and media narratives reinforce the idea of people in need as architects of their own misfortune and to blame for the fact that they've fallen through the cracks.
Redgrave rejects any suggestion the narrative reinforces predestination – "I don't believe in fate for a second.
"This before [surgery] and after narrative reinforces the idea that the barriers between male and female are so vast and so broad that trans folks must do all this surgery to cross over," she told the Radio Times.
There is a path, but there are also pitfalls, and in establishing a narrative to suit the domestic agenda – a narrative enthusiastically reinforced by much of the western media – the Americans may have made life a little harder for their Iranian interlocutors.
